Consecutive-view apparatus.



Patented Dec. 3|, 190i.

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{Applicgtion filed. Sept. 27, 1397.) (No Model.)

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No. 689,857; Patented De'c. 3|, l90l w. K. L. DlCKSON.. CONSECUTIVE VIEW APPARATUS.

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IVILLIAM KENNEDY-LAURIE DICKSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN MUTOSOOPE 8r BIOGRAPH COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CONSECUTIVE-VIEW APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,857, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed September 27, 1897- Serial No. 653,283. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM KENNEDY- LAURIE DIOKSON, a subject of the Queen of England, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Consecutive -View Apparatus; and

p I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

10 such as will enable others skilled-in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to consecutive-view apparatus, and particularly to consecutiveview-reproducing apparatus,such as the wellknown projecting-machines,which by throwing a succession of views of moving objects in rapid succession upon a screen produce the appearance of motion.

My invention is applicable both to projecting and to direct-view-reproducing apparatus.

The object of my invention is to enable views to be reproduced in colors without coloring the entire length of picture-carrying film, which is both diflicult and expensive.

Such films contain a large number of views of the same size and which closely resemble each other, dittering only in the positions of certain parts which are in motion when" the photographs are taken. large portion of the scene photographed is absolutely stationary during the wholetime the photographs are taken, the moving object or objects constituting only a portion of the picture. It is frequently these stationary portions of the picture which it is most desirable to color, as they often contain parts the natural colors of which are more prominent' to the eye than that of the moving objects. This will be understood by reference to Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings, in which there are shown two views such as may be upon different portions of a picture-strip of a consecutive-view-reprod ucing machine. The scene represented is the passage of a train along a railway-track, and

in the view shown in Fig. 5, in which the train is in the' distance, the train itself is a very small object, the major portion of the view being a landscape, the parts of which In most views a' are of course stationary while the train is passing and'the colors of which are far more prominent to the eye than the colors of the train, particularly when the train is in the distance. If the film itself were to be colored the landscape portion of each separate view on the strip would have to be colored separately, notwithstanding the fact that in all of the views the landscape portion of the scene is precisely the same, except as more or less is hidden by the train. I avoid this 6o necessity of coloring the several views of the strip by placing behind the strip a transparent plate colored to correspond to the colors of the stationary portion of the scene, and which is in exact registry with each view during the instant of exposure.

In the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification, in which the same reference-numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts, Fig. 1 is a transverse vertical section of the projecting apparatus con,- taining my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the apparatus, the front of the inclosing case and the objective lens having been removed. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of a portion of the apparatus similar to Fig. 1-, but showing only a portion of the mechanism and illustrating a modification.

:Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig.2 of this modification; and Figs. 5 and 6, as already stated, illustrate the class of views to which this invention is intended to be applied.

In the drawings, 1 is an inclosing case; 2, a lamp or other source of illumination.

3 is a condensing-lens; 4, an objective lens; 5, a shutter; 6, a supply-spool; 7, a receivingspool; 8, a shaft for driving the supply and receiving spools and which by suitable gearing drives the shutter also, and 9 the film or picture-strip.

This invention doesnot relate to the particular means employed for driving the film or picture-strip, and I do not limit myself to any particular mechanism or any particular type of mechanism for driving the film, as 5 my invention is quite independent thereof. The mechanism which drives the film may drive it by a continuous or by an intermittures on the film were colored.

tent motion, as may be preferred. Such illus; tration of the film feeding and driving and shutter mechanisms as is made in the drawings is intended to simply represent any filmfeeding and shutter mechanisms.

10, Figs. 1 and 2, is a disk revolubly mounted and directly in rear of the film. This disk may be either a transparent plate or it maybe a metal plate having transparent sections, as shown in Fig. 2, upon which are painted or otherwise imprinted in transparent colors, such as are used in coloring lantern-slides, the stationary portions of difierent views which are to be reproduced by the machine. These view-sections of the disk 10 are so placed that the several view-sections may be brought into exact registry with the pictures on the picture-strip when said pictures are passing through the field of the apparatus at the instant of exposure. The light in passing through a view-section of the disk corresponding to a picture on the film then in the field of view produces the same effect as though the stationary portions of the various pic- The movable portion of the views where they are superposed over any of the stationary or colored portions blot out such colors.

It is advantageous in many cases to use a disk 10, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, which contains a n u mberofditferent view-sections properly colored and each of which may be brought into thefield ofillumination by rotating the disk, because ordinarily a single projecting machine is provided with a series of pictures of a number of different subjects. Instead of using a revolving disk containing difierent view-sections each colored to correspond to a different subject, plates 10 may be used, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. These plates may be fitted into a slide in rear of the film and may be placed in the slide whenever the corresponding series of pictures is to be exhibited.

Having thus completely described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1 1. Inaconsecutive-viewapparatus,thecorn' bination, with a view-carrier having pictures of a moving object thereon, and means for passing said pictures successively through a field of view, of a plate colored to correspond to the stationary portions of said views, and located in the path of the light illuminating a picture in the field of view and in optical registry with said picture, whereby the appearance of color in the picture is produced, substantially as described.

2. In aconsecutive-viewapparatus,the combination, with a view-carrier having a series of pictures of a moving object thereon, means for passing said pictures successively through a field of view, and means for passing light through said picture when in said field of view, of a transparent plate colored to correspond to the stationary portions of said views and located between the source of illumination and the view-carrier, and in optical registry with the pictures when in said field of view, whereby the appearance of color in the pictures is produced, substantially as described.

3. In a consecutive-viewapparatus,the com-- bination, with means for passing a plurality or a series of pictures of moving objects through a field of view, and means for passing light through said pictures when in said field of view, of a disk, rotatably mounted and located between said pictures when in said field of view and said source of illumination, and having a plurality of transparent sections adapted each to be brought into registry with pictures when in said field ot' view, by movement of the disk, and each colored to correspond to the stationary portion of one of the series of pictures to be used in the apparatus, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM KENNEDY-LAURIE DICKSON. Witnesses:

ELIAS B. KoorMAn, E. SHOULS. 

